Susan Neill-Fraser; Tasmania; Her supporters hope that expanded right-to-appeal legislation will give her the opportunity to introduce fresh evidence that will prove her innocence. The Mercury.

STORY: "New appeal hope for convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser," by reporter Duncan Abey, published by the Mercury on September 10, 2014.

GIST: "Family and supporters of convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser say
the decision by Tasmanian Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin to introduce
expanded right-to-appeal legislation based on the existence of new
evidence offers genuine hope for the 59-year-old inmate. Dr Goodwin used Budget Estimates yesterday to announce the Liberal
Government would draft legislation to provide a review of a criminal
case where “fresh and compelling” facts came to light, or in cases where
there was evidence of a tainted conviction.........Neill-Fraser was sentenced to 23 years in
prison in October 2010 for murdering her partner, radiation physicist
Bob Chappell, on board their yacht Four Winds on the River Derwent on
Australia Day 2009.........Prominent
Neill-Fraser supporter and documentary filmmaker Eve Ash said she was
“100 per cent confident” that the legislative changes bolstering the
right to appeal would result in the exoneration and release of the
Hobart grandmother, saying there were a number of pieces of fresh
evidence in the case that were yet to be revealed."

Interested participants may sign up by contacting Win Wahrer of The
Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted at:
winwahrer@aidwyc.org.

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Dear Reader. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog. We are following this case.I
have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses
several thousand posts. The search box is located near the bottom of
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About Me

My interest in forensic pathology began with my Toronto Star investigative reporting into once famed since disgraced former doctor Charles Smith. I began this Blog after retiring from the Star in 2006 in order to follow the aftermath into the independent Goudge inquiry into many of Smith's cases. I have now begun to focus on cases involving flawed forensic science no matter where they occur (the recent Amanda Knox prosecution in Italy, for example) and am fascinated by the interest in the Blog from people in countries throughout the world. In another development, my interest in "junk science" "pseudo-experts" and the miscarriages of justice they all too often cause has drawn me deeply into the on-going U.S. death penalty debate where so many troubling cases involve issues relating to DNA and other developments in the world of forensic science. For all of this I rely on my experience as a reporter at the Toronto Star, my work as a lawyer in Ontario's criminal courts, and my abhorrence of injustice. Please send cases and developments which may be of interest to this Blog to hlevy15@gmail.com. Read on! Harold Levy.